Power-protection stuff moved to UPS HOWTO. DIMM memory is gone. Tape drives don't make sense any more. Lots of the theory from my "Ultimate Linux Box" articles now lives here.

Revision 2.4

2003-02-22

Revised by: esr

URL fixes.

Revision 2.3

2002-08-06

Revised by: esr

Buying at the low end isn't a lose anymore. I recommend Athlons. Nuked the section on video standards, EDID takes care of all that now. Also removed the section on older memory types. And keyboards, as the "ergonomic" ones all vanished along with the 1990s carpal-tunnel scare.

Revision 2.2

2002-08-05

Revised by: esr

New section on DVD drives.

Revision 2.1

2002-07-08

Revised by: esr

Corrected Kingston URL. Various small updates for the last year. This HOWTO is much more stable than it used to be.